Technical debt
27 bites tagged Technical debt: interview questions with model answers, and 60-second explainers.
Refactoring: Cleaning Code Without Breaking It
Refactoring is like renovating a house's internals without changing its outward appearance. It improves code design and readability without altering external behavior, making it easier to maintain or extend.
The Technical Debt Quadrant
The Technical Debt Quadrant reframes debt not as one problem, but a 2x2 matrix: prudent vs. reckless and deliberate vs. inadvertent. This distinguishes a strategic choice to ship early from a simple mess. The footgun is treating all debt as equally bad.
The Boy Scout Rule: Leave Code Cleaner Than You Found It
The Boy Scout Rule applies a simple principle to code: always leave it a little cleaner than you found it. When fixing a bug, make a small improvement like renaming a variable.
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